Indian Annuities
Document 1799Enclosed invoices for annuities due several Indian Nations. All goods listed have been forwarded. Invoices must be sent along with annuities or the agents will not be able to distribute quantities properly. Waggoner leaves Philadelphia with medicine and hospital stores.
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Dear Sir — Philadelphia 12 April 1799
With this letter you will receive all the invoices for the annuities due the Several Nations of Indians as therein expressed — the whole of the goods are forwarded — 2 Waggon Loads this day with the Medicines and Hospital Stores for the Western Posts — The invoices must be [undecipherable: sent] on with the Supplies or the Agents will be at a loss in making the [undecipherable: Returns] — have received your letter of the [undecipherable] instant, — have only time to inform you, that I will attend to any part and reply fully hereafter —
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Chicasaws
Shawnees
Miami
Chippewa
Ottawa
Delaware
Wyandot]
I am Sir
Your Most Obedient Servant
Samuel Hodgson
Major Isaac Craig
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Enclosed invoices for annuities due several Indian Nations. All goods listed have been forwarded. Invoices must be sent along with annuities or the agents will not be able to distribute quantities properly. Waggoner leaves Philadelphia with medicine and hospital stores.
Date
04/12/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Collection
Document number
1799041236001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Craig to Hodgdon, 04/19/1799.
Notable persons
Isaac Craig
Samuel Hodgdon
Indians
Indian Nation
agent
Chickasaw
Wyandot
Delaware
Miami
Shawnee
Chippewa
Ottawa
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
frontier
territory
post
Notable items
annuities
medicine
hospital stores

